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Just a couple of tidbits..Phil Lesh & Friends has been added to the Mountain Jam music festival set for Hunter Mountain June 1-3. Phil is known by many for playing bass for the Grateful Dead for decades. But you might not know that he had a liver transplant several years ago and last year was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Rock on Phil!

Also, didjeridu player Stephen Kent will perform Tuesday at the Rosendale Theater, on Main Street in Rosendale. I called the Australian Consulate in Manhattan Monday to learn about the traditions and culture surrounding this wind instrument, and was surprised to hear that Australian Aborigines, that country’s native people, who for 40,000 years have used the didj as a sacred instrument, frown upon and find offensvie non-Aborigines who play the didjeridu for money and speak in public about Aboriginal traditions, things that all invovle Kent. This event will be the cover story in this week’s ENJOY! section, which is published every Friday in the Poughkeepsie Journal.